"Kode9 drops his first single in two years. 'Xingfu Lu' is a kind of musical puzzle. Named after a Shanghai street where it was started, it's intense, wrapping angular chords that are simultaneously ecstatic and brutal around a structure that contracts and dilates, ...
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"Where "Quarantine" was dense and beatless, layered and visceral with vocals cutting through intense soundscapes, "Sunlight On The Faded" is energized and geometric, with lush chords built around hard, sparse drums and Laurel's harmonized vocals." (label info) more »

"Cooly G has produced a debut that sits next to Laurel Halo, Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland and DVA's Hyperdub debuts as records with original and single minded perspectives that manage to straddle pop and experimentation perfectly. Although she's been associated with the ...
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"Cooly G has produced a debut that sits next to Laurel Halo, Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland and DVA's Hyperdub debuts as records with original and single minded perspectives that manage to straddle pop and experimentation perfectly. Although she's been associated with the ...
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"A brilliant and subtle curveball courtesy of Philly's finest, King Britt, here in his new guise as Fhloston Paradigm. Built from drum machines, analogue keyboards and 303s, and edited in the computer, these three lean and mean tracks have an unadorned feeling that ...
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"One-off repressing of the limited CD compiling both of Burial's "Street Halo" and "Kindred" EPs, originally produced exclusively for the Japanese domestic market. All six tracks in their full length versions, totalling 50 minutes of music not previously available on ...
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"Since 2010's 'King Felix' and into last years highly lauded 'Hour Logic', Laurel Halo has developed a self-contained take on electronic music, collapsing the boundaries between ambient, pop, synthetic psychedelia, dub and the techno music of her Midwest roots." (label ...
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"Since 2010's 'King Felix' and into last years highly lauded 'Hour Logic', Laurel Halo has developed a self-contained take on electronic music, collapsing the boundaries between ambient, pop, synthetic psychedelia, dub and the techno music of her Midwest roots." (label ...
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"The illusive Ill Blu were one of the more promising acts to emerge from the funky explosion of 2008-9, and continue their rich if sporadic vein of form with a release on Hyperdub. Clapper will ensure their production tag will echo around clubs for months to come, as it ...
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"After 3 albums across as many labels, the duo, Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland, also of the group Hype Williams, release their debut Hyperdub LP, 'Black is Beautiful'. Amidst rumours circulating, and confirmed by their 'advisor' Denna Frances, the album was recorded ...
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"DVA is a natural maverick, a one man spaceship, who on Pretty Ugly shows off an uncanny ability to create urban pop and dance that's full of rich musicality and unusual textures and ideas. He's a producer that has come through Grime and then uk funky but he's always ...
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"'Kelly Price W8 Gain Vol.II EP' is the four track Hyperdub debut from Hype Williams, a group with two core members who have spawned a steadily growing labyrinth of hermetic, audio/visual surrealism over the last year, and have attracted the attention of many ...
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"It has been five years since the release of Kode9 and The Spaceape's searing first album "Memories Of The Future". On this new recording, named after Kode9's influential 2009 single 'Black Sun', the intensity and themes of their debut remain, but the delivery is more ...
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"The third EP taken from Terror Danjah's "Undeniable" CD kicks off with one of the big surprises of the album, the inimitable genre traversing "S.O.S.", with a simple melodic riff played out over drum patterns that shift up in down in rhythm and tempo, grinding to a ...
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"'Lost' is one of the album's most single-suited moments, released here on Hyperdub's first ever seven inch record. Roger Robinson's lyrics are full of regret and sorrow in the aftermath of a finished relationship, while the beats sound like a long lost RZA production. ...
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"The band have adjusted their focus, adding lead singer James Buttery to the production and writing team of James Young and Aiden Whalley, and the result as heard on 'North' is a brave, low-key pop masterpiece, which discards the cheap thrills and treadmill ideas that ...
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"Hyperdub has long been a fan of grime don Terror Danjah's razor sharp productions, his unparalleled, skittering rhythm science, deadly riffs, brilliant technicolour synth squiggles, "gremlin cackle" signature and general ear for a catchy tune. On this first EP for the ...
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